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Carol Dana (Penobscot) served as the Tribal Scholar in Residence during the Fall Term, 2006. Carol spent most of her time researching and writing proposals to continue the study and use of the Penobscot Indian language in Maine.

Judy Kertesz (2006-2007) - (Lumbee) was a doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. Her dissertation is titled: "Skeletons in the American Attic: Curiosity, Science and the Appropriation of the American Indian Past." She is now an Assistant Professor at NC State University in the Department of History and her teaching interests include Native American History, Early American History, Public History, Material Culture, and Museology.

Professor Wilkins joined Dartmouth from the University of Minnesota where he took a leave of absence as professor and chair of the American Indian Studies department. He is an expert in comparative politics, American political theory, Federal Indian policy, tribal governance and the history of colonialism and Native peoples. He has published eight books since 1987. While at Dartmouth he taught two courses Fall, 2005: "Native Americans and the Law" and "Native American Treaties."

The first Dartmouth Tribal Scholar was Charles Redcorn, a member of the Tzi-zhu-wah-shta-gi Clan of the Osage Tribe, who spent his time in residence writing a novel. Mr. Redcorn's first novel, A Pipe for February, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2000.

Andrea Marlene B. Abeita (Navajo). Andrea graduated Dartmouth with a major in Native American Studies. She was awarded the writing prize for her spring term 2004 Independent Research project and resulting paper: "Stories, Oral and Written: A Native Perspective."

Randy Akee (2004-2005) - (Native Hawaiian),received his PhD from Harvard University in Political Economy and Government. His dissertation is titled: "Three Essays in Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples. Randy is now an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. In June 2013 was named to the U.S. Census Bureau's National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations.

Professor O'Brien joined us from the University of Southern Mississippi, where he taught many courses in American History, but his focus of research has been on Southeastern Indians. His first book entitled "Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830" (University of Nebraska Press) was published in 2002. He has also published essays is many scholarly journals. He taught two courses during the fall of 2004: "The Invasion of America: American Indian History, Pre-contact to 1830", and "The...

Angelica Lawson (2003-2004) - (Northern Arapaho), completed her Ph.D at the University of Arizona, Tucson. The title of her dissertation is: "Resistance and Resilience in the Work of Four Native American Authors." Prof. Lawson was also a visiting instructor at Dartmouth, and taught a course in NAS for the Fall, 2003 term: "American Indians on Film and Television." She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, specializing in American Indian Film and...